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The first in India or the first Indian to achieve some distinct distinction in various disciplines of sports. The table below list the important achievements in the field of sports (India).
First Indian player in sports
AchievementSports-person
The first Indian to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games.KD Jadhav
The first Indian to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games.Abhinav Bindra
The first Indian woman to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games.Karnam Malleswari
(Weight Lifting)
1st Indian to win Olympic medals at two consecutive Olympic Games.Sushil Kumar
The first Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian gold medal.Navjot Kaur
The first person to win the international bronze medal in skiing.Aanchal Thakur
The first Indian (also the first Asian) to win the Wimbledon junior Singles title.Ramanathan Krishnan(in 1954)
The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title (French Open mixed doubles title in 1997).Mahesh Bhupathi
The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles.Mahesh Bhupathi (2006)
The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in doubles.Leander Paes (2012)
The first Indian to become a world champion in billiards.Wilson Jones
India's first Grandmaster and also the first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship.Vishwanathan Anand
The first Indian to win the under 10 World Chess Championship.P. Harikrishna
The first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship.Prakash Padukone
The first Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games.Ashish Kumar
The first Indian woman to receive the Grandmaster's title.Koneru Humpy
The youngest Indian to win the Grandmaster title.Parimarjan Negi
(13 years 3 months and 22 days)
The youngest Indian to captain its test cricket team.Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
The first Indian to swim across the English Channel.Mihir Sen (1958)
The first Indian woman (also Asian woman) to swim across the English Channel.Aarti Saha (1959)
The first woman in the world to swim the seven seas.Bula Chaudhary
The first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian GamesKamaljit Sandhu
The first Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling.Sakshi Malik
won Bronze in the 2016 Summer Olympics
The first Indian women athlete to win a medal at a world event (Bronze at World Athletics Championship, 2003).Anju Bobby George
The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title.Sania Mirza
The first Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal in Badminton.P. V. Sindhu
The first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and also to win a Super Series tournament, (by clinching the Indonesia Open). First Indian woman to be ranked World No. 1Saina Nehwal
1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.Viswanathan Anand
1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.Karnam Malleswari
1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement Award.Aparna Ghosh
1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award.Salim Durrani
The first Indian Batsman to complete 10000 runs in Test Cricket.Sunil Gavaskar
The first indian cricketer to play 1 over 6 sixes.Ravi Shastri
The first Indian Batsman to complete 10000 runs in One Day Cricket.Sachin Tendulkar
The first Indian Formula 1 race driver.Narain Karthikeyan
The first Indian Formula 1 team.Force India
1st Indian recipient of International Cricket Council's Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (also the first in the world).Rahul Dravid
1st Indian recipient of Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World.Virender Sehwag
The first Indian Cricketer to score a triple century.Virendra Sehwag
The first Indian Cricketer to take hat trick in Test Cricket.Harbhajan Singh
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